What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at Tandym Tech?
Job Description
A financial services company in Michigan is actively seeking a driven and dynamic professional to join their staff as their new Scrum Master. In this role, the Scrum Master facilitates the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team.
**The person sitting in this role can sit in Detroit, MI or Charlotte, NC.
Responsibilities
The Scrum Master:
**The person sitting in this role can sit in Detroit, MI or Charlotte, NC.
Responsibilities
The Scrum Master:
- Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients
- Facilitates Agile ceremonies
- Uses historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments
- Works with the project sponsor and product owner to determine staffing requirements
- Assists with identifying which resources need to be procured outside the organization
- Involves team in identifying and removing impediments and known risks through analysis and prioritization
- Maintains risk register and escalates where needed
- Reviews expenditures and evaluates factors that may potentially cause cost changes
- Conducts in-depth root cause analysis of project budget discrepancies
- Effectively utilizes progress indicators such as burn-down and burn-up charts
- Utilizes the team definition of done to guide the team during their sprint commitments
- Uses collaborative engagement techniques
- Fosters self-accountability
- Tracks and measures client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendations
- Generates appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change while facilitating identification and removal of obstacles to change
- 3- 5 years' experience leading projects as a Scrum Master
- IT infrastructure familiarity
- Ability to prioritize and organize effectively and manage multiple projects and assignments
- Excellent critical thinking skills
- Ability to develop strong working relationships with peers and project members
- Proven ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work independently with minimal instructions
- Knowledge and ability to use computer and software applications
- Ability to analyze and interpret data
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